Establishing a sustainable health care infrastructure in Sierra Leone

Surg+Restore LIVE on KGW Channel 8 Friday June 23

President and founder of Surg+Restore, Dr. R. Scott Brown will be featured on “8 Heroes” segment of The Portland Today Show, KGW Channel 8 with Ashley Korslien from 11 am – 12 pm on Friday June 23rd. The Portland based Afro-Latin Blues band, Ojos Feos will open and close the segment with 2 of their original composition of human rights and social conscience in developing countries. A slide show of the charities work in Sierra Leon, training and funding the medical education of Sierra Leone’s first 2 anesthesiologists and plastic surgeons will accompany the TV program.

About Howard Brown

Mr. Brown is the Co-Founder and CEO of pioneering Ethical Fashion brand Stewart+Brown. He is a master brand builder and guerilla marketer with an expertise in fashion, sustainability, active lifestyle and entertainment. He has created and built brands for a number of best in category enterprises including Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Burton Snowboards, Disney, ESPN, X Games and Microsoft. In the NGO space, he has worked with a variety of organizations including Reef Check, Boarding for Breast Cancer, Keep-A-Breast, Riverkeeper, Freedom & Fashion, and Teens Turning Green.
Mr. Brown lectures extensively on design, sustainability, and business, at an array of venues including Harvard Business School, Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business, and the Brazilian Biennial of Art and Design. His award winning designs reside in the permanent collections of the American Institute of Graphic Artists, The New York Art Directors Club, Society of Publication Designers, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is based in Ventura, California.